{"id":4301,"date":"2015-05-23T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2015-05-23T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T11:19:08","slug":"not-in-your-wildest-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/not-in-your-wildest-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Not in your wildest dreams&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_19-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20150521_19\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>we don&#8217;t know for sure, but we think that this may be what a forage experts dream about at night.\u00a0 At least, Sarah Flack, a forage guru from Vermont who visited Thistle Hill the other day, seemed to be in her own personal vision of heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah consults on forages for a number of farms.\u00a0 Also lectures.\u00a0 Also writes books.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what she was doing here:\u00a0 gathering material<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150521_33-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20150521_33\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0for her next book.\u00a0 Her working title is something like &#8220;Be Your Own Consultant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah couldn&#8217;t get over the plant diversity in our pastures and had a hard time believing it had all been achieved without over-seeding of any kind.\u00a0 Three years ago we did over-seed one pasture with Italian rye for our steers, but it wasn&#8217;t worth the expense.<\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;ve achieved has been the result of managed grazing and spraying microbes.\u00a0 Oh, and rain&#8230;.probably the most important ingredient of all.\u00a0 Our fescue has now been &#8220;invaded&#8221; by red clover and orchard grass.\u00a0 It&#8217;s supposed to be the other way around.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve delayed mowing weeds for the past two years, hoping to encourage the orchard grass.\u00a0 The red clover is just a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we don&#8217;t know for sure, but we think that this may be what a forage experts dream about at night.\u00a0 At least, Sarah Flack, a forage guru from Vermont who visited Thistle Hill the other day, seemed to be in her own personal vision of heaven. Sarah consults on forages for a number of farms.\u00a0 Also lectures.\u00a0 Also writes books.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what she was doing here:\u00a0 gathering material\u00a0for her next book.\u00a0 Her working title is something like &#8220;Be Your Own Consultant&#8221;. Sarah couldn&#8217;t get over the plant diversity in our pastures and had a hard time believing it had all been achieved without over-seeding of any kind.\u00a0 Three years ago we did over-seed one pasture with Italian rye for our steers, but it wasn&#8217;t worth the expense. What we&#8217;ve achieved has been the result of managed grazing and spraying microbes.\u00a0 Oh, and rain&#8230;.probably the most important ingredient of all.\u00a0 Our fescue has now been &#8220;invaded&#8221; by red clover and orchard grass.\u00a0 It&#8217;s supposed to be the other way around.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve delayed mowing weeds for the past two years, hoping to encourage the orchard grass.\u00a0 The red clover is just a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}